Enhance beneficial insects, pollinators with native plants

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Plant Fact Sheets

Common name
Highly attractive	Moderately Attractive	Low / no attractiveness
Angelica Blue lobelia * Buckwheat Canada anemone Common boneset Common cowparsnip Cup plant Golden alexanders Horsemint / Spotted bee balm Indian hemp Meadowsweet New England aster Pale-leaved sunflower Riddell's goldenrod Sand coreopsis / tickseed Shrubby cinquefoil Yellow coneflower / Pinnate prairie coneflower *= Non-native plant	Butterfly weed Buttonbush Coriander Culver’s root Evening primrose Faba bean / Horsebean / Broad bean Hoary vervain / Hoary verbena Ironweed / Missouri ironweed Late figwort / Carpenter's square Michigan rose / Climbing rose Nodding wild onion Pale Indian plantain Penstemon / Hairy beardtongue Rough blazing star Showy goldenrod Smooth blue aster Swamp milkweed *Sweet alyssum Wild strawberry / Virginia strawberry Yellow giant hyssop	Alum root Columbine Dill Hairy bush-clover* Leadplant New Jersey tea Red-berried elder Round-leaved ragwort Showy tick trefoil Virginia waterleaf Wild geranium

Scientific name (Nomenclature follows Herman et al 2001.)
Highly attractive	Moderately attractive	Low / no attractiveness
Angelica atropurpurea Anemone canadensis Apocynum cannabinum Aster novae-angliae Coreopsis lanceolata Eupatorium perfoliatum Fagopyrum esculentum Helianthus strumosus Heracleum maximum Lobelia siphilitica Lobularia maritima Monarda punctata Potentilla fruticosa Ratibida pinnata Silphium perfoliatum Solidago riddellii Spiraea alba Zizia aurea *= Non-native plant	Agastache nepetoides Allium cernuum Asclepias incarnata Asclepias tuberosa Aster laevis Cacalia atriplicifolia Cephalanthus occidentalis Coriandrum sativum Fragaria virginiana Liatris aspera Oenethera biennis Penstemon hirsutus Rosa setigera Scrophularia marilandica Solidago speciosa Verbena stricta Vernonia missurica Veronicastrum virginicum Vicia faba	Amorpha canescens *Anethum graveolens Aquilegia canadensis Ceanothus americana Desmodium canadense Geranium maculatum Heuchera americana Hydrophyllum virginianum Lespedeza hirta Sambucus racemosa Senecio obovatus

Information prepared by: Doug Landis, Anna Fiedler, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University with assistance by William Schneider of Wildtype. Please note: The information presented at this web site should be considered a guideline to be adapted for your situation. MSU makes no warranty about the use of the information presented here. Read disclaimer.

Web site information prepared by: Doug Landis, Anna Fiedler, Rufus Isaacs and Julianna Tuell, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University. Funding support: USDA SARE with Project GREEEN, the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, MSU Extension, and the MSU IPM Program.
Web developer: J.N. Landis, MSU IPM Program. Updated: 03/07/08